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  • Smith D. Atkins
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  • Smith Dykins Atkins (June 9, 1836 – March 27, 1913) was an American newspaper editor, lawyer, and a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War, who temporarily commanded brigades of infantry for two periods of time and cavalry for three periods of time and who was awarded the grades of brevet brigadier general of volunteers and brevet major general of volunteers. After hostilities ended he returned to his editorial work and became an author.
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serviceyears
  • 1861
Birth Date
  • 1836-06-09
Branch
death place
  • Freeport, Illinois
Name
  • Smith Dykins Atkins
Caption
  • Smith Dykins Atkins
placeofburial label
  • Place of burial
Birth Place
  • Horseheads, New York
death date
  • 1913-03-27
Rank
  • *
Image size
  • 200
Battles
laterwork
  • newspaper editor, postmaster, author
placeofburial
  • City Cemetery in Freeport
abstract
  • Smith Dykins Atkins (June 9, 1836 – March 27, 1913) was an American newspaper editor, lawyer, and a Union Army colonel during the American Civil War, who temporarily commanded brigades of infantry for two periods of time and cavalry for three periods of time and who was awarded the grades of brevet brigadier general of volunteers and brevet major general of volunteers. After hostilities ended he returned to his editorial work and became an author.
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